Biologists have been working for three decades on a recovery project for the Illinois-endangered Blanding’s turtle, whose numbers were declining due to an increase in predators and habitat destruction ...

Potter Park Zoo hatched and released two Blanding’s turtles as part of the head start conservation program.

The future of the Blanding’s Turtle is unknown. For now, some of the species are in a safe place. Last year, 31 adult and juvenile Blanding’s Turtles along with 18 eggs were rescued along Consumers ...

Biologists have been working for three decades on a recovery project for the endangered Blanding’s turtle throughout the state, including DuPage County, as numbers declined due to an increase in ...

KELLOGG — Blanding’s turtles are disappearing from one of their most important natural habitats in North America that happens to be in Southeast Minnesota. Conservationists are hoping 146 acres of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DES MOINES, Iowa — A partnership between the Blank Park Zoo, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, and Iowa State University ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is hoping to give a claw up to one of Iowa’s most elusive — and most threatened — turtle species by head-starting two Blanding’s turtle hatchlings at the ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- The Shedd Aquarium recently released 24 state-endangered Blanding's turtles onto a protected site in the DuPage County Forest Preserve system. The endangered Blanding's turtles ...

As turtles of all types deal with the grim prospect of crossing roads this time of year, a Lake County program to boost the population of one endangered species is finding success. And the ...

The world was very different when the "old lady" clawed out of her shell. It happened sometime before 1932, likely near Pinckney, Michigan, where the 3R11L turtle, a Blanding's turtle known ...